Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-18

don, Miss.
Mr.. John Harriss of Colorado City,
president of the Seven Rivers Cattle
Company, was in the city yesterday.
a meeting of the UvaIde Live Stock
Association was held recently at UValde,
and arrangements were perfected for the
fall roundup.
Messrs. Hodge & Co., left the city last
night with three carloads of mules for
Old Mexico, for work On the Mexican Ms
tionsl Railroad.
Andrews Bros. have In drove OF
seventy-fve we'll broke Texas horses from
Palo Pinto county, which they claim are
the best put on the Fort Worth market
this season.
Two carloads of horses and four of
cattle were at the Texas and Pacific stock
yards yesterday. The horses go to O1o-
Iona, Miss, and the cattle are for the
eastern markets.
Messrs. A. R. & j. S. Powell yesterday
made transfer of twenty geldings to MIR.
G. w. Wilderman, who will ship them
soon. These same gentlemen also
shipped yesterday splendid, blooded
saddle stallion to Morgan, Tex.
A GAZETTE man yesterday received in
formation of some fancy stock in from
the north that will, after the Dallas fair,
be put on the Fort Worth market. The
following are only few Of large mum.
bsr Of the finest graded cattle, and they
will no doubt DE snalched up by the local
fanciers: Messrs. Palmer & Isle Of
Nashville will have three car
loads; Harlan & Farmer one car
load, and Howell & figures will
have carload OF splendid HolsteIns.
These are all Kentucky stock. Polk Bros.
Of this city, are having unloaded at Dallas
to-day five fancy horses and drove of
fifteen thoroughbred Jerseys, that will
be brought to Fort Worth if not disposed
of at Dallas.
The UValde News has this to say:
Those two most valuable stock feeds,
cotton seed meal and prickly pear, are
beginning to be appreciated. Inventors
have been 81 work and several machines
for choppiDg up the pear are now upon
the market. Many stOCkmen who once
hooted OF the idea OF feeding beef any
thing but grass, will feed small herds
this winter, and it will not be long be-
fore We will have large refrigerstors and
packing establishments in Texas, and i'm
mense fatteries using our Texas crops of
prickly pear, cotton seed.mesl, corn, hay,
ETC., in supplying them with fat
stock. II the stock business does not
take boom sooner, il will certainly have
one then, but perhaps not until then.
Every man who can turn Off car Of stall
fed beeves ought 70 do so. Such sre al
ways in demand and bring good returns.
Mr.. J. M. Wise of the Texas and Pa
cifc stockyards of Fort Worth is in 3 po-
Bition to meet about all the stockmen
coming through the city with stock, and
is consequently well posted on the condi-
ton of the stock and pastures Of West
Texas. He has also good opportunities
of observing the quality of the cattle GO
ing through, and can speak as one who
knows concerning all these mat
tiers. To this gentleman, therefore,
went reporter yesterday to as
certain the facts regarding the quality
and quantity of the stock being shipped
at present, and the feeling of the grow
ers with regard to their prospects. He
said: There are now coming through
Fort Worth about twenty five cars of
cattle on an average per day, while up to
three weeks ago the shipments averaged
fifty or sixty cars daily. This does not !
indicate that the heavy shipments of the
last season are beginning to fall of, but
is only the result of the late
heavy rains. The streams in the
west have all been swollen
so as to make them very difficult of ford
ing, and the shippers do not care to send
their cattle to market too soon after
going through anything Of that sort.
Another thing that has caused the falling
of is that the grass has been looking so
fine lately that the growers are holding
their cattle back to feed up little. As
co the condition Of the stock going
through, Mr.. Wise says the cattle which
have gone to market through Fort Worth
during the last three weeks have been the
finest ever handled at his yards since the
yesr 81. Most of the cattle being
shipped now are from Colorado City,
Midland and Sweetwater. There a.e
some few coming in from about Lam
pasas that are not quite SO good as from
further north. There has not been so
much rain in that section as in many
others, which accounts for the compare
lively inferior Stock coming from there.
On lsstISaturday 8 shipment of fifteen car
loads of Colorado stock was weighed
here, and conservative judges estimate
that the drove will average 1850 pounds
on the Chicago market. AS to the horses
coming in, they average about eight car
loads per day, mostly from Coleman,
Palo Pinto and Shackelford counties. |
They mostly go to Mississippi
and Alabama. They are all in
good condition. The only poor
horses passing through GoW are from
about the region Of San Antonio. All the
western horses are in fine condition. Mr..
Wise predicts that In q few days the rush
of cattle will be resumed and the surplus
stock be moving from the Texas plains as
rapidly as ever again.
Wealthy Ranchman Dead.
Special TO the Gazette.
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